Hooray For Earth – True Loves (Video)

For all my fellow homies not leaving for a fun-filled weekend at Sasquatch this AM, here’s a little track to make you feel a little bit better about your existence.

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Synthcake – Molding Through New Seasons

One of the toughest tricks in being a pop musician is creating music that feels current, and yet sets itself apart from it’s peers. In the midst of Vancouver’s indie scene, Synthcake rears it’s mast. The band makes a unique blend of electronic pop music that leaves many other local acts feeling just a tad generic. Believe it or not, Lana Pitre, frontlady and songstress of Synthcake, gets away with making indie-electro-circus pop, this is honestly the best way to describe what you hear.

Molding Through the Seasons is their freshly released EP. The five tracks offer a rich blend between hallucinative and haunting lady voices, and bouncing carnival grooves that are just plain fun.

Synthcake – Drip
Synthcake – Sail Away

You can check out their EP Release on May 11th, and you can purchase a digital copy of MTS on Bandcamp.

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Behind Saphire – Diamonds EP

Vancouver’s indie-folk rockers, Behind Sapphire, have been making a good splash with their new EP, “Diamonds”. The latest six tracks have a new taste of adventure and experimentation since their debut album in 2010.

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Kindness – House

Kindness is the musical alias of UK-based singer songwriter Adam Bainbridge, a dude that holds more mystery than the Weeknd. Bainbridge made major waves at SXSW this year, captivating audiences with his dreamy vocals and alternative take on chillwave dance music.

He recently released his debut LP entitled World, You Need a Change of Mind  via Terrible/Casablanca, which is set for a US release on May 8. And to get a taste for the albums sound, check out his latest single House, a track this is sure to make you fall in love with his long hair and delicate features.

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HBD Winnie

So it’s Winnie Cooper’s birthday today and in celebration of such a momentous occasion let’s jam out to this killa track.

And don’t forget the real party is happening next week, when Lil B will be hitting up Canada for the first time at FiveSixty. Tickets are only $25 and you can cop them here.

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Young Liars, The Ballantynes & Valley Girl @ FiveSixty

Unless you’ve been incarcerated for the past year and/or camping out in the boonies, I’m going to presume that you’re familiar with Vancouver buzz band Young Liars.  They break hearts with their hipster good looks and hypnotic electro-pop.

Luckily for me, they’re hitting up FiveSixty nightclub on Thursday, April 12 to support their latest release off Nettwerk Records entitled Homesick Futures aka the perfect post-prom love making album.  Be careful ya’ll, wear a rubber.

Young Liars will be joined by fellow local acts The Ballantynes and Valley Girl, who have the perfect tunes for this supa chill weather.

Tickets are only $10.00 and available online or at Zulu, Beatstreet and Red Cat Records.  Doors are at 8:30pm, show at 9:30pm.

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Hot Chip – Flutes

I encourage you all to start your week off right with a sexy new single from Hot Chip. My favourite memory of Hot Chip was watching them at Coachella 2010, an older couple standing near me clearly wasn’t diggin’, and said they were just “electronic disco,” which made me wonder what acoustic disco sounds like…

Their new track Flutes is an infectious booty shaker, and it’s going to be on their new album “In Our Heads” which comes out in June on Domino Records.

Hot Chip is hitting The Commodore on September 15th which feels like 5 billion years from now but you can get tickets now and they’re going fast.

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Beach House – Myths

Since it’s release, Teen Dreams has become a staple to any indie listener’s album diet. Two years since it’s release, the songs still feel refreshing and powerful, but another release would certainly be welcome. Beach House’s new track, Myths, picks up where they left off in a sonically familiar territory, but the mood of the lyrics is excitingly different.

Beach House’s new LP “Bloom” will be out on May 15th via Sub Pop.

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